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ICPSR Instructional Subset
[electronic resource] Justifying Violence: Attitudes of American Men, 1969
Monica Blumenthal
,
Robert L. Kahn
,
Frank M. Andrews
1992-02-16Ann Arbor, Mich.Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]1984ICPSR7517NumericTitle from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-03-03.AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.Also available as downloadable files.
This survey of attitudes of 1,374 American men aged 16-64
toward violence was conducted in the summer of 1969 by the Survey
Research Center of the Institute for Social Research at the University
of Michigan. The investigators examined the level of violence that
respondents viewed as justified to accomplish social control and
social change and also probed the respondents' personal values,
their definition of violence, and their identification with groups
involved in violence. To examine the degree of violence that American
men felt could be justified for social control, the investigators
asked respondents to react to situations involving protests and other
disturbances. These situations included hoodlum gang disturbances,
student protests, and Black protest demonstrations. The respondents
were asked what police actions from "letting it go" to "shooting to
kill" were appropriate as police control measures. Several such items
were combined to form an index of "violence for social control." In
questions dealing with the level of violence necessary to bring about
social change, respondents were asked if they agreed with the
necessity of "protest in which some people will be killed" in order
to bring about changes sought by Blacks, by student demonstrators, and
in general. These items were combined into an index of "violence for
social change." This instructional subset from the original study
also includes an initial series of questions that asked whether
respondents viewed such actions as protest demonstrations, police
frisking, looting, burglary, and draft-card burning as violence. This
was followed by inquiries into the possible causes of violence and
motives of those who participate in violence. Another set of variables
deals with respondents' relative views of property damage and personal
injury and their opinions on the use of violence to prevent violence,
violence as a teaching tool, forgiveness of one's attacker, and the
roles of courts and police agencies in combating crime. The subset
concludes with a number of derived indices of violence attitudes that
drew upon survey questions to form general patterns. These derived
indices include retributive justice, self-defense, humanism,
property-person priority, kindness, police-court power, court fairness,
social causes, trust, and peer consensus indices. Finally, several
summary measures gauge the respondents' general approval of violence
for social control and social change purposes. Demographic variables
specify education, age, religion, socioeconomic status, and region of
the country.
Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07517.v1
Black militancyicpsrcrime controlicpsrcultural attitudesicpsrdraft resistersicpsrgang violenceicpsrhuman behavioricpsrinstructional materialsicpsrmalesicpsrpolice responseicpsrprotest demonstrationsicpsrracial attitudesicpsrself defenseicpsrsocial changeicpsrsocial controlicpsrsocial protesticpsrsocial sciencesicpsrstudent protestsicpsrvictimizationicpsrviolenceicpsrICPSR X.A.2. Instructional Packages and Computer Programs, Instructional Packages, ICPSR Instructional SubsetsRCMD XIII. Race and EthnicityNACJD I. Attitude SurveysBlumenthal, MonicaKahn, Robert L.Andrews, Frank M.Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.ICPSR (Series)Access restricted ; authentication may be required:http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07517.v1